An Aussie tourist has filmed a confrontation with French police in Paris, claiming he was stopped and interrogated without being given a reason. 

Ahmed Assaad was walking back to a hotel with his teenage brother during a dream trip to the city earlier in October when the pair were stopped by four officers on bicycles.

'We've come from Australia and the police want to do an investigation on us,' he said. 

'So they've pulled us over for no reason, done a full check on us, took our passports and everything.'

Mr Assaad could be seen surrounded by officers who appeared to be conducting identification checks and asking for him to remove a hand from his pocket.

In the video, he asked a police officer for his name, before the officer appeared to try to block the Aussie's phone with his hand. 

'This is for our safety. I'm afraid of the police who come and pull us over for no reason,' the tourist told the officer.

'You think you're strong cause you're behind the badge? That's the French police. Here's what they do to Australian tourists.'

A man has been extradited from Poland and charged with murder more than three years after a body of a tradie was found inside a metal cabinet on the NSW Mid North Coast.

The 26-year-old arrived at Sydney International Airport in Mascot at about 6pm on Friday, escorted by homicide detectives. 

He was taken to Mascot Police Station, where he was charged with the murder of Darcy Schafer-Turner.

Two men have previously been sentenced over the death of Mr Schafer-Turner, who was 22 when he disappeared following a drug-related dispute. 

NSW Police had launched an investigation in March 2023 to look into the alleged supply of drugs in Caringbah, in Sydney's south.

Officers found links to a missing person case and brought in homicide detectives, who established Strike Force Etruscan to investigate the disappearance of a 22-year-old man from Peakhurst.

On May 12, 2023, police searched Warrell Creek at Macksville, a small town on the Nambucca River, where they found the remains of Mr Schafer-Turner hidden inside a large metal cabinet in a creek.

Zachary Richard Fraser, 22, and Charles Dennis Le Marchant Turnbull, 33,

An elegant iguana has been pictured cutting a dashing figure and striking a pose while wearing a wandering crab like a bowtie.

The large lizard was photographed on top of a rock on Fernandina Island in the Galápagos archipelago by Dale Morris.

In one shot, the smartly-dressed iguana is perched upon a mound while a vibrant red crab clings to its neck, giving the appearance of a snazzy bowtie.

Another picture shows three fluorescent Sally Lightfoot Crabs clinging to an iguana as a wave crashes over the lizard and its crustacean counterparts.

Other shots also showed the crabs crawling up toward the resting iguanas - with neither animal seeming to mind the other's presence.

Mr Morris was exploring the island and on the lookout for the speckled Marine Iguanas when he happened upon the pair, which he labelled a 'very funny sight.'

He said: 'I was out on the Island looking for Marine Iguanas when I came across this very funny sight. 

'Sally Lightfoot Crabs were crawling around and one had ended up clinging on to an Iguana around its neck, making it look like the Iguana was wearing a bow tie.'

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Thomas Markle has vehemently denied possessing child-sex images, describing the accusations as 'sick lies'.

Mr Markle, 82, said allegations made by his son Tom Jr that he downloaded child pornography on to computers and cellphones 'is the worst thing anyone could accuse me of'.

The Duchess of Sussex's father spoke exclusively to the Daily Mail from a rehabilitation centre in Florida where he is learning to walk with a prosthetic limb after his left leg was amputated below the knee last December when doctors found a massive blood clot.

He said: 'I'm shocked, I'm hurt and I'm very upset that my son is making these accusations against me.

'I could never do what I'm being accused of. It's the worst thing anyone could accuse me of.

'This is bulls****. It's just a bunch of lies. It's sick. I have no idea why Tom is trying to destroy me with these lies.'

Meghan's half-brother Tom Jr, 60, made the bombshell claims to The Sun, saying he found 'hundreds' of child-sex images stored on computers and a mobile phone in four large storage boxes 'left behind' by Mr Markle when he

John Healey is planning to send 2,000 anti-fraud experts into Jobcentres in a bid to crack down on benefits cheats and save taxpayers £1.4billion. 

The Chancellor is expected to announce at the Budget that fraud-busting officials will team up with Work Coaches to spot suspicious Universal Credit claims early. 

Tougher checks on claims abroad are also expected, targeting fraudsters who fail to report they have left the country in order to keep payments flowing.

Benefits scroungers have been altering their documents to beat the system and claim thousands of pounds.

One cheat pocketed nearly £39,000 from taxpayers while living in Zimbabwe and collecting rent from a UK property.

Another Universal Credit claimant from the Midlands submitted an application for support with childcare costs – but listed their address as a derelict building in the local area.

New data-driven checks will identify potential breaches of benefit travel rules, exposing bogus claims and protecting public money. 

A Treasury spokesman said: 'We need to make the most of every pound of taxpayers' money and cut fraud to ensure the welfare system is fair and sustainable. 

The Prime Minister risks a Liz Truss-style crisis that will undermine the Government's popularity and 'crater' the economy if public spending is not slashed in the Budget, a key Labour ally has warned.

Former Bank of England chief economist Andy Haldane cautioned the PM that his Government risked delivering a 'mañana' Autumn Budget which does not 'speak to the urgency of now' and delays decisions on public spending.

Mr Haldane - who acted as an informal aid to Mr Burnham when he served as mayor of Manchester – warned the Government has failed to acknowledge the 'precarious' fiscal position it is in, saying Britain is 'close' to being 'being taxed out and maxed out in terms of borrowing.'

Speaking to The Times, Mr Haldane urged the government to reduce taxes and bring down the size of the state if it is to generate growth.

He also stressed the Government's decision to increase taxes on banks proves it lacked the fortitude to cut public spending, labelling the move as 'penny wise, pound foolish' and sent a wider message the 'taxman cometh' if businesses make profits.

While Burnham has the potential

Kemi Badenoch accused Andy Burnham of failing to do the 'difficult stuff' after he appeared on Gogglebox on Friday night.

The Tory leader said she worried the Prime Minister was spending his time appearing on television shows rather than ensuring people were safe.

It comes as Mr Burnham became the first PM to appear on Channel 4's reality television programme in a special episode for charity Stand Up to Cancer, where he shared the stage with his close ally the mayor of Liverpool, Steve Rotheram.

But Ms Badenoch cast doubt on how serious he was about leading the country while making light-hearted appearances on popular television shows.

'I worry that between the Prime Minister being on Gogglebox and then talking about stockpiling canned goods, they're not actually doing the really difficult stuff that will protect the country,' she said.

The episode showed Mr Burnham and Mr Rotheram – as well as other famous faces such as Stanley Tucci, Paul Whitehouse, Joe Lycett and the Sugababes – watching emotional

Some men collect stamps. Others spend their weekends on the golf course. Me? I've spent the last 42 years visiting pubs.

Not just the odd one or two, either. I've just clocked up my 25,000th, which I reckon makes me something of an expert on the great British boozer.

Along the way I've sunk an estimated 60,000 pints, spent around £336,000 and travelled from my home in West Bromwich as far north as Shetland and as far south as the Scilly Isles, taking in 69 British islands and every county in between on the way.

And before you ask, yes, my wife Dawn is remarkably understanding.

It all began in 1984 when my dad pinned up a map of 250 Banks's pubs – which sold beer from the historic Wolverhampton brewery that opened in 1875 and closed in 2025 in its 150th year – which my friends and I decided to visit for charity.

Back then a pint cost around 64p, pubs shut in the afternoon and the idea of ordering anything more sophisticated to eat than a packet of crisps was practically unheard of.

Forty-two years later, that modest undertaking has turned into something of an

For retired US Air Force veteran Sonny Graham, the overcast spring day in 2008 had begun like any other.

At about 7.30am, he had gone to his local store in Vidalia, Georgia, to buy supplies for his landscaping business and, on returning home, made himself a coffee and took it out to his shed.

But after placing the mug on a table next to him, Sonny shot himself dead.

For his family, their shock and grief were compounded by disbelief that he had chosen to end his life in the same way as 33-year-old Terry Cottle – the man whose suicide 13 years earlier had given Sonny a new chance of life.

Suffering from a diseased and enlarged heart as a result of a viral infection, Sonny received a transplant from Terry, whose family had agreed to his organs being donated after his death.

Sonny had been immensely grateful. 'He said he was very blessed and lucky to have such a young heart,' Marcy Beach, his former work colleague remembers. But despite this, he had followed Terry to his grave in exactly the same manner.

More extraordinary still, this was not the only way in which his

Before their relationship irredeemably soured, the Duchess of Sussex was apt to speak of her father with deep affection. As we were often reminded, she was the apple of his eye.

Underlining their unshakeable bond, Meghan once observed in her and Prince Harry's Netflix documentary that she had been 'a Daddy's Girl my whole life'.

It is not a description she's likely to use again any time soon. Her 82-year-old father, Thomas Markle, today stands accused of possessing a huge stash of 'sickening' child sex images at his home in the Philippines, having been shopped to police by his 60-year-old son, Thomas Jr. For his part, Thomas Sr says it is all 'a bunch of lies'.

What is notably curious about Meghan's Netflix reflection is that it was made in 2022 – four years after she now says the Metropolitan Police received a letter making 'troubling and disturbing allegations against my father'. It was because of these claims, the duchess says, that she prevented him from meeting her children. She did so

The estranged mother of Democrat Ohio gubernatorial candidate Amy Acton, who starred in an ad slamming her own daughter as a liar, has a criminal record that includes allegedly killing newborn kittens.

Donna Arthur, 81,  has landed in the center of the race between her daughter and GOP nominee Vivek Ramaswamy, after an ad supporting the billionaire saw her trash her daughter's recollection of her childhood.

However, Acton's campaign has brought that childhood experience to the light, accusing Arthur of having stood by the side of Acton's stepfather, whom she accuses of sexually abusing her at the age of 12. 

Now, it's been revealed that Arthur has her own sordid past, including a 2021 animal abuse conviction, according to court filings in Pennsylvania.  

Arthur was arrested after four kittens had been found in her car without the air conditioning, with temperatures reaching up to 120 degrees inside. 

The kittens were found by a humane society police officer in the 'filthy' car, with one of them later dying due to heat exhaustion, a worker at local animal shelter